Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Schedule, January 10-18

The first Passion Red (Nanae's faction) show has sold out the small Itabashi Green Hall venue. Not a bad start.

OZ Academy will have a title watch with Carlos Amano defending against Mayumi Ozaki again. Hopefully this will lend closure to this feud. Also, Dynamite Kansai has returned thinner and with the short blonde hair and has vowed to destroy the Ozaki Army. KAORU got squashed in 80 seconds in her return; this time Kansai teams with Tomoka Nakagawa against Evil Manami Toyota in Black Jeans and Trashy Hiren in Lacy Black Tights. Hiren will take a ride on Splash Mountain.

NEO is starting their "STAGE" tournament to determine the next challenger for Nanae Takahashi's NEO/NWA Pacific belts. The format is the same as last year, a single elimination tourney with 12 wrestlers, 6 from NEO and 6 outside. Hiroyo Matsumoto won in an upset last year. I expect a NEO regular, either Yoshiko Tamura (if they want to burn Nanae/Tamura this soon) or Yuki Miyazaki to win.